Quote

It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.

Stephen Covey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
Author
Businessperson
Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
Knowledge
Like
Shoreline
Motivational
Wisdom

More quotes by Stephen Covey

Image
What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?
Stephen Covey
Image
To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.
Stephen Covey
Image
When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.
Stephen Covey
Image
It's not only a matter of when to do things, but whether or not to do them at all.
Stephen Covey
Image
I think that [respect for people] is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.
Stephen Covey
Image
Above all, success in business requires two things: a winning competitive strategy, and superb organizational execution. Distrust is the enemy of both. I submit that while high trust won't necessarily rescue a poor strategy, low trust will almost always derail a good one.
Stephen Covey
Image
But borrowing strength builds weakness.
Stephen Covey
Image
If we spend most of our time concerned about things we cannot truly directly influence, what we can influence will be reduced. If we spend our energies on those things over which we can expect positive results, we will expand our influence.
Stephen Covey
Image
I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul. (David O. McKay).
Stephen Covey
Image
It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.
Stephen Covey
Image
The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
Stephen Covey
Image
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
Stephen Covey
Image
It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others
Stephen Covey
Image
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.
Stephen Covey
Image
Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.
Stephen Covey
Image
In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or outside the organisation the essence of good business, therefore, is the quality of the relationship between customer and supplier.
Stephen Covey
Image
Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.
Stephen Covey
Image
I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse.
Stephen Covey
Image
We can never really change someone people must change themselves.
Stephen Covey
Image
Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
Stephen Covey